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Angie’s List Soars As Q4 Results Top Street Views
Angie’s List shares have spiked in late trading Wednesday after the membership-based provider of online home improvement recommendations reported better-than-expected Q4 financial results. For the period, Angie’s reported revenue of...…
Obama cybersecurity order welcomed as step forward by internet activists
The government is due to produce a preliminary cybersecurity framework draft later this year. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images …
Scoble: Why Facebook Won’t Fade
Is Facebook on its way out? Robert Scoble doesn't think so. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) It’s a parlor game in tech circles: when will Facebook flame out? Its lackluster IPO…
The Entertainment And Culture Divide- The Failure of Marco Rubio’s GOP Response to SOTU
Every year politics becomes more entrenched with entertainment and why wouldn’t it? After all, Washington DC is referred to as Hollywood for ugly people by people inside the beltway. Celebrities clamor for the…
Obama’s Cybersecurity Action Reaches Too Far
Since nothing has been happening in Washington lately except speeches, President Obama seized the moment and ended his State of the Union day by issuing an Executive Order (EO) and Presidential Policy Directive 21 (PPD-21) on critical infrastru...…
Are You Among LinkedIn’s Elite?
The other day I received a congratulatory email about being a member of LinkedIn’s “top 5% profiles viewed.” So I posted an update to Facebook asking my friends there if that earned…
K-Mart Not Cool with the 18-34 Demo Just Quite Yet
From the Kmart Concierge promotional video To combat falling sales, discount retailer K-Mart is attempting a bold tactic: be cool. The company has partnered with celebrities to launch custom collections,…
‘The Sip Heard Round the World’, Except at Poland Spring
Mike Matthews is Managing Director of NYC-based, social & mobile marketing consultancy, The Mobile Culture. He can be followed @MobileMatthews ‘The sip’ flooded the Twitter-sphere last night when Florida Senator Marco Rubio s...…
Groupon CEO Unleashes A Tirade
Andrew Mason. (Credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Move over, Rupert Murdoch! Groupon’s 32-year-old CEO, Andrew Mason, has just used his Twitter account to unleash…
Vietnam suppresses its bloggers with long jail terms after unfair trials
A major report highlighting the plight of bloggers in Vietnam was published today. It reveals that…
Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy Live At The Goldman Conference
Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy is on stage at the Goldman Sach tech conference in San Francisco this morning, where he’ll be interviewed by Goldman Internet analyst Heath Terry. I’ll be blogging the…
Update: Apple’s Siri (Finally) Hits The Road…In A Chevy
Photo credit: Chevrolet Chevrolet officially wins the race to integrate “Siri,” the ubiquitous iPhone’s voice activated “intelligent assistant” into its model line, officially launching on February 13 on the youth-oriented Spark...…
10 Best New-Car Interiors
A welcome departure from the typical Teutonic form-follows-function school of interior design, the Audi A7's elegantly fashionable dashboard packs an array of high-tech features, including a navigation system that can be progra...…
Trulia Spikes 25% On Strong Q4; Zillow Along For The Ride
Shares of the online real-estate site Trulia are up sharply Wednesday on better-than-expected Q4 revenues and upbeat Q1 guidance. For Q4, the company posted revenue of $20.6 million and a pro form…
Following WikiLeaks’ Playbook, BalkanLeaks Releases Insurance File With Its Spilled Secrets
WikiLeaks may have faded from the headlines, but in a corner of Eastern Europe, a copycat is playing out the secret-spilling site’s saga again. And it’s learned all of its predecessor’s…
AOL Acquires Tech Site gdgt
AOL has acquired the tech gadget reviews site gdgt. The deal was announced this morning on gdgt’s blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is a homecoming of sorts;…
Apple and Samsung dominate market as feature phones fall behind
An elderly Chinese man looks at lanterns displayed outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China. Smartphones make up the majority of shipments there. Photograph:…
Will Topshop and Google change fashion shows for ever?
Cara Delevingne poses for Topshop and Google's collaboration Photograph: Topshop There was a time when the London…
Big Content loses Demonoid pirate case
While Big Content cheered when it thought it had shut down the file-sharing site Demoniod and had its founder locked up last year, it seems that the case has collapsed. Torrent Freak reports…
Poor Fox News. If only marrying lesbians weren’t so keen to conform | Julie Bindel
'Instead of dismantling the patriarchal institution we are now taking part in it, often dressed more like something out of Don’t Tell the Bride.'…
California + Texas Governors Tax Free Two Step is No Tax Alamo
The Alamo (Photo credit: qthrul) Texas Governor Rick Perry is on a mission. Come on down to Texas, he’s coaxing, and enjoy no state income tax. We’re friendly and we know…
Great Employees Are Not Replaceable
One of the most important lessons I learned during my years as a CEO was that great employees are not replaceable. It isn’t the technology or the product that make a company great, it’s the people. And companieswho see their good employee...…
President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order Scores Much Better Than CISPA On Privacy
A still from President Obama's online stream of the State of the Union. With the reintroduction of the much-maligned Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act scheduled for the day after…
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